πεῖρα, ας
(Ionic dialect πεῖρα, accusative πεῖραν, genitive -ης), Aeolic dialect πέρρα [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus in “An. Ox.” 2.252] Refs 4th c.AD+]: ἡ:— trial, attempt, π. τοι μαθήσιος ἀρχά [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 63 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; opposed to δόξα, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 571; πείρᾳ δ᾽ οὐ προσωμίλησά πω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 591; πικρὰν πεῖραν τολμήσειν [prev. author] “El.” 471; πείρᾳ σφαλῆναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἢν μὲν ξυμβῇ ἡ π. [[ [prev. author] 3.3; πείρᾳ θην πάντα τελεῖται 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.62 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πεῖραν ἔχοντες being proved, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.76 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but πεῖραν ἔχειν τινός to have experience of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινῶν ἔχειν ὅτι.. [[ [prev. author] “An.” 3.2.16 ] Refs]; π. ἔχει τῆς γνώμης involves a trial of your resolution, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πεῖράν τινος λαμβάνειν or λαβεῖν to make trial or proof of.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 691, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.236, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 448a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.6.33, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, gain experience of.., ἐν ἑαυτῷ[[ [prev. work] 5.8.15; π. λ. τινός, ὅπως ἔχει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 342a; π. λ. τινός, εἰ ἄρα τι λέγει [prev. author] “Thg.” 129d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πεῖράν τινος διδόναι (cf. Latin specimen sui edere) Darei Epist. in [[ “SIG” 22.21, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.45; π. τῆς δόξης δοῦναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.11; π. ἔργῳ δεδωκέναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.107, compare 195; π. ἀλλήλων λαμβάνοντες καὶ διδόντες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 348a; πεῖραν ποιήσασθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.53 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ποιεῖσθαι εἰ.. [[ [prev. author] 2.20; ταῖς π. βασανίζειν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 747a3; πεῖραν καθεῖναι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 2.13, compare “NA” 1.39 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. δέξασθαι undertake, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 5. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]